[0:00]furious world leaders are canceling their military contracts with the United States. They are canceling uh investments in the United States. They are blocking the United States from critical international meetings.
[0:13]Let's talk about what NATO is doing, for example. NATO has just announced that it will not be buying any more of the United States E3 century Aax, you know those uh surveillance airplanes that were the crown jewel of the United States Air Force.
[0:30]You may recall that was one of the airplanes that was destroyed by Iran at the uh Saudi airbase.
[0:37]Well, one of the big announcements by NATO as Donald Trump continues to attack NATO, is they're going to be buying basically the European version of the E3 century Aax, which is an airplane made by Saab in Sweden.
[0:54]And NATO is going to be bolstering its defense capabilities with a plane called the Swedish Saab Golden Eye, which it's going to replace the 14 E3 Aax planes.
[1:05]This is a big deal, folks, because one of the things the United States was trying to do is, you know, first the United States said they were going to be making this E7 version of the E3.
[1:14]Then they tried to hold out with NATO and say, hey, hang tight, we're going to be working through this uh new generation of the E3 and it may not be the E7.
[1:23]And NATO, once Donald Trump just started relentlessly attacking NATO, NATO said enough is enough, we ain't doing it.
[1:29]So here's the story, folks, NATO selects Swedish Saab Global Eye to replace the 14 E3 Aax planes in historic shift from the US.
[1:36]As uh Jim Sciuto explains, this shift away from the US are a product of the US shift away from Europe and Donald Trump's constant attack of NATO.
[1:48]Um as uh this one account explains, for nearly four decades, NATO's eyes in the sky have been American. The Boeing E3 Century, a militarized 707 with a rotating radar dish on top, has been the alliance's airborne early warning backbone since the 1980s.
[2:05]Washington built it, Washington serviced it, that era ended this week. But the US said they were going to make this E7. They delayed in that.
[2:12]They wanted NATO to hold out. Donald Trump starts saying, I'm going to retaliate against NATO because you didn't support the war crimes I was committing in Iran.
[2:20]NATO said, thank you. Bye-bye. NATO's procurement division said we will be ordering the Global Eye, which by the way, it uses a fixed AESA radar rather than the E3's rotating dish, enabling faster target detection across air, sea, and land at ranges exceeding 550 km with endurance of over 13 hours per sortie.
[2:30]It is smaller, cheaper to operate, and requires fewer crew. Unit cost sits at roughly 550 million euros against significantly higher estimates for the E7. France had already ordered two.
[2:37]Poland and Germany were circling. Now NATO has formalized it for the whole alliance. Trump spent 14 months telling Europe to spend more on defense and rely less on America.
[2:41]Europe listen. He just didn't expect them to mean it quite so literally. And Europe saying got your message, Donald. We're not going to be buying the E3 centuries, see you later.
[2:46]Now, it's something similar that we're seeing in Canada right now, where they're doing the F35 review.
[2:51]Canada was supposed to buy these F-35s. It wasn't even really a question that they were going to buy these F-35s.
[3:04]Then Donald Trump starts attacking Canada and says we're going to make you the 51st state, all of these demeaning things and Canada says, okay, well, now that you're attacking our sovereignty, also Donald Trump basically saying like, why would I even renew Kusma, the Canadian United States Mexico agreement and Trump, you know, imposed all the tariffs on Canada.
[3:17]And then Donald Trump was saying, well, we could put kill switches in our F-35s and our military equipment. Also, when you get an F-35, or you get American military equipment, you then have to get all of the maintenance associated with it and all of the spare parts come from the United States.
[3:32]And people saw look what happened in Iran where once you had some American parts or if America gave you the Thad systems or the Patriot systems, like America would like take it back or they would say, oopsies, we don't have the parts instead, we're going to send it to the Middle East to help the United States.
[3:47]And, you know, the United States was not a reliable partner. And so, while lots of people will tell you the F-35 is a superior plane than the Saab Swedish version, it's called a Gripen.
[3:57]But there are lots of Gripen fans out there from Sweden, but lots of people believe the F-35 is probably a superior plane.
[4:03]But in the long run, where you have to rely on the United States for spare parts and maintenance and Trump's talking about kill switches, one of the things that Sweden has been offering is, look, don't do the F-35s or maybe you could do some F-35s, but do other Gripens.
[4:18]And let's build it together. Let's build Gripen factory, Saab Gripen factories in Canada.
[4:29]We'll create lots of Canadian jobs and you can be the masters of your destiny, Canada. Let's build a plane together.
[4:33]We we can provide, you know, the core, you know, Gripen plane, you know, model. And then maybe we can innovate together.
[4:41]And so in response to that Lockheed, which makes the F-35s, they went to one of the big defense manufacturers, um in Canada and they said, all right, well, I guess we got to run to Ottawa and we got to help make Canadian jobs.
[4:53]And so the F-35s, I mean Lockheed is really sweating it and they came up with a plan where they're going to basically offer all of these jobs in Ottawa to try to compete with Sweden's Gripen.
[5:03]But the very fact that, you know, even Canada's like, yeah, I don't think we're going to go with that and we may go with the Gripen, just goes to tell you how no one wants to basically touch the United States, you know, weapons anymore.
[5:15]And this is all a result of Donald Trump. I was just thinking about this big hearing in Cyprus that just took place, where you had all of these world leaders, you had NATO leaders, you had Ursula Wonderline representing the European Union Commission.
[5:27]Um, you know, and I was just thinking about how they were all basically moving on from the United States, how, you know, you had that, you had that meeting earlier. You had uh a big meeting that was led by Kier Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron about a week ago.
[5:43]Bringing together 50 nations to try to figure out ways to either open up the strait of Hormuz or figure out diplomatic solutions while Donald Trump is out there, you know, contradicting himself each day and posting, you know, duress social media posts.
[5:56]You have these broader alliances forming and the US ain't invited to these meetings. The US wasn't in Cyprus. The US wasn't at the meeting held by Starmer, um and uh Macron.
[6:07]You know, and when Donald Trump, you know, starts attacking NATO and says all of these things, NATO strikes back as well.
[6:15]I mean, you had Donald Trump, uh, you know, uh the Trump regime had this memorandum that was circulating Colby Elbridge, Elbridge Colby, you know, the number two at the uh Department of Defense, uh prepared this memorandum about how can we retaliate against NATO countries.
[6:30]And the Trump regime figuring out, how do we punish NATO countries, right? At the same time the Trump regime has invited Vladimir Putin to the G20 in December in Miami at the Trump properties.
[6:42]The Trump regime is figuring out what best can we do in order to hurt NATO. Um as uh Phil Stewart at Reuters explains, scoop, internal Pentagon emails detailed options that the Trump regime is considering for how to punish NATO allies who the US believes failed to support it in the Iran war operations.
[7:01]They're thinking about, oh, should we suspend Spain from NATO? Can we take a new look at the Falklands and other European quote imperial possessions? We need to snatch European imperial possessions is what the Trump regime is saying. And Reuters talked about this uh email, uh this this email note that was prepared by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's top policy advisor.
[7:27]Coming up with ways to attack NATO countries to which NATO responded by saying, bet, we're not buying your E3 century Aax. We're going to buy the Global Eye from Saab.
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[8:44]Also NATO came out with a pretty strong statement. There's no, how dare you NATO said and there's no provision to expel members after report US could seek to suspend Spain.
[8:54]A NATO official told the BBC that the alliance's founding treaty does not foresee any provision for suspension of NATO membership or expulsion. Spain's leader has also dismissed the report. Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told the BBC that despite everything the US has done for its NATO allies, they were not there for us.
[9:37]She added, the War Department Defence Department will ensure that the president has credible options to ensure that our allies are no longer a paper tiger and instead do their part. Yeah, they're not buying your damn weapons anymore.
[9:48]They're not, they're not inviting you to meetings anymore. America first means America alone right now, you idiots. You've destroyed the strong ensoft power of the United States while Donald Trump is social media posting, ranting and raving like a lunatic.
[10:02]By the way, here's Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Here's what he had to say, play this clip.
[10:07]Spain is a reliable partner uh within the within the NATO and uh we're fulfilling our, you know, obligations with NATO. We are deploying military uh capabilities and also soldiers at the eastern flank of Europe.
[10:23]Uh, so therefore no worries at all. I would say that it would be important if uh European countries, European allies, we can share our thoughts and information before starting wars as the one that we are now suffering in the Middle East, because this this part of the world is close by Europe.
[10:46]And uh, and we need also to be aware and uh and to to have an opinion on this. From my point of view, this war is illegal.
[10:55]It's a big mistake and uh I hope that in the near future we can face de-escalation and, of course, a way out thanks to diplomacy and not thanks to to wars.
[11:09]And here's what French President Emmanuel Macron had to say when he was in Greece about how America is no longer a reliable ally or even an ally at all.
[11:17]This is from French President Emmanuel Macron's recent trip uh to Greece. I'm going to do a whole other video on this, but let's play this clip.
[11:27]I think um, this this very moment could be the European moment.
[11:35]And for several reasons. Number one, everybody in this world have a clear view that this is a world of disorder.
[11:48]Second, everybody sees that the number one power, the US, could be an ally for certain countries, but this ally is not so much certain.
[12:03]And nobody is totally sure this is a reliable. Now I was just watching this meeting in Cyprus. You see right here all the world leaders, Donald Trump not invited to this. America not there at all.
[12:15]Um and I was thinking about the news also about how Saudi Arabia keeps on canceling financial commitments in the United States.
[12:29]Right, we learned about how the live golf tournament, which is basically fully funded by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, Saudi Arabia's like, yeah, we're only going to be focusing our money now on essential projects and sorry, your live golf tournament isn't essential.
[12:37]And so you hit Donald Trump where it hurts, you hit him at the golf, with the golf league that the Saudi's propped up.
[12:44]They giveth, they taketh away, they prop it up, they rip it apart and now the whole live golf tournament's in jeopardy.
[12:51]In addition, as Mark LaVine reports, uh, Saudi Arabia just backed out of a deal to provide $200 million in much needed funding to the Met Opera.
[13:01]The reason because of the war's impact on the Saudi economy, they are pulling back on funding commitments, anything they deemed non-essential in the United States, Saudi snatching up and they ain't going to be paying.
[13:13]This is a terrible blow, Mark LaVine says, to one of our nation's great cultural pillars. Although may I push back, Mark, for a second and suggest that perhaps one of our nation's big cultural pillars should not be dependent on the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
[13:30]Ah, maybe I'm going out on a limb here to say that they shouldn't be fully funded by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, but what do I know?
[13:35]People don't realize this but those Middle East sovereign wealth funds funnel a lot of money to the United States. A lot of American corporations, private equity, I mean, setting aside obviously Jared Kushner, who's basically fully funded by Middle East countries while he's out there undermining American national security.
[13:56]While negotiating on his behalf and Netanyahu's behalf, not on the United States's behalf with Middle East nations undermining our security, him and freaking Whitkoff, when they're worse, don't even get me started there.
[14:05]Um, but lots of our private equity firms here in the United States, lots of our, um, there's a lot of media companies, uh, lots of mergers and acquisitions are funded by Saudi money and Middle East money that pours into the United States real estate propped up by that money.
[14:24]Um, you know, so much money used to come in, and now you're seeing a pullback, not just a pullback there, but a pullback from our bond market from international buyers as well, saying, I don't know, the America doesn't seem like a safe, stable place to put our money anymore.
[14:40]So we're seeing that. So we have all of these things going on at the same time. Also, you have Polish Prime Minister, uh, Donald Tusk.
[14:50]You know, and he's been commenting that, uh, you know, the United States just isn't really an ally anymore. I mean, he came out with a very strong statement, uh, Donald Tusk, saying, you know, we can't rely on the United States for an ally.
[15:02]Oh, I mean, I did I show you the clip where uh French President Emmanuel Macron also said, he's echoing the words here of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
[15:13]They both said this, which is basically article five of NATO, which is the joint defense article. If one person gets attacked, all of NATO supports each other, that Donald Trump's basically destroyed article five of NATO.
[15:24]The Tusk said that in a recent article, and here's French President Emmanuel Macron saying it as well. Let's play this clip.
[15:31]Everybody is spending more, and at the same time, there is now adopt on the Article 5. Not put on the table by the Europeans, but by the US president.
[15:40]And I mean, it's it's clearly a de facto weakening the the strength of the alliance.
[15:45]I I think NATO is very useful, first for interperability, second because it was a very uh interperability of our equipments, our armies and so on, and it is a source of efficiency.
[15:58]And because it's a good strategic alliance very uh useful for all of us.
[16:03]But I really believe, I'm a strong believer in the European pillar of NATO. I advocated that years ago as uh your Prime Minister mentioned, we together pushed forward this agenda of strategic autonomy.
[16:17]And this is where we are. So my view is that we have to strengthen this European pillar. We should not be the one to weaken NATO.
[16:26]We have to preserve NATO and its interperability, but the Europeans have to be much stronger and work together and launch together common operations and what we are ready to do in the Baltic Sea.
[16:38]Here, so there you have it, folks. I'm going to keep you posted every step of the way, but these are some big developments right here. Hit subscribe. We're on our way to 7 million subscribers.
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